The madness of women myth and experience

Nominated for the 2012 Distinguished Publication Award of the Association for Women in Psychology!Why are women more likely to be positioned or diagnosed as mad than men?If madness is a social construction, a gendered label, as many feminist critics would argue, how can we understand and explain wom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Ussher, Jane M., 1961-, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hove, East Sussex : Routledge 2011.
Edición:1st ed
Colección:Women and psychology.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Cover; The Madness of Women; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. The madness of women: myth or experience?; 2. The daughter of hysteria: depression as a `woman's problem'?; 3. Labelling women as mad: regulating and oppressing women; 4. Woman as object, not subject: madness as response to objectification and sexual violence; 5. The construction and lived experience of women's distress: positioning premenstrual change as psychiatric illness; 6. Women's madness: resistance and survival; Appendix; Notes; References; Index